Downtime is a business problem, not just an IT one
When a critical system goes down, orders stop, staff wait and customers notice. High availability and disaster recovery are about deciding in advance how much interruption your business can tolerate — and building infrastructure that stays within it.
We’ve designed and supported environments in healthcare, finance and manufacturing, where downtime is not an option. We bring the same approach to small and mid-sized businesses in Philadelphia and across the US, scaled to your risks and budget.
High availability: staying up through failures
Failover clustering
Windows Server Failover Clustering lets virtual machines and services move automatically to a healthy host when hardware fails, and lets you patch and maintain hosts without taking workloads offline. We design clusters with the right quorum model, networking and storage to behave predictably when something goes wrong.
Resilient storage and networking
A cluster is only as available as the storage and network beneath it. We build redundancy into storage — shared or hyper-converged with Storage Spaces Direct — and into network paths, so no single cable, switch or disk can take you down.
Application-level availability
For databases, SQL Server Always On availability groups keep data synchronized across servers and fail over quickly. We match the availability technology to each application rather than applying one answer everywhere.
Disaster recovery: coming back from the worst day
Replication to a second site or to Azure
Hyper-V Replica and Azure Site Recovery replicate servers to a secondary location continuously. Using Azure as the recovery site avoids the cost of a second data center while still giving you a place to fail over to.
Runbooks and test failovers
A recovery plan that hasn’t been tested is a hope, not a plan. We write clear, step-by-step runbooks for failover and failback, run a full test failover, and record how long recovery actually takes against your targets.
Who this service is for
- Businesses where an outage directly stops revenue or operations
- Organizations with a single server or site supporting critical systems
- Companies asked by insurers, auditors or customers to show a tested DR plan
- Teams that have backups but no documented way to restore full services quickly